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Castle Pain and Temple Death on the Indie Royale bundle

August 12, 2012

Platformance: Castle Pain and Platformance: Temple Death are making their PC debut on the Gone Fishin’ Indie Royale Bundle right now. You can get both with a bunch of other great games here: INDIE ROYALE BUNDLE The other games are: SOL: Exodus All zombies must die! Cubemen Squids The bundle lasts 8 days starting from […]

It’s X-mas: win a Magiko Four Pack!

December 19, 2011

Hey! We’re giving away some Magiko Gaming games for XBox 360. Lucky winners will get a pack of four games containing: Platformance: Castle Pain Platformance: Temple Death Bunker Buster Who is God To enter: – Go and Like the Platformines page on Facebook – Leave a happy comment on the latest video on the wall […]

An explanation on Peer to Peer Scoreboards

August 26, 2011

Some people have asked how the scoreboards in our game works. XBLIGs cannot use a server to deal with a list of scores, so instead they used a peer to peer system to exchange and propagate scores. Since it’s a bit special here is an explanation. When you are playing the game you automatically connect […]

Platformance: Castle Pain update 1.8 released: online scoreboards

June 6, 2011

Platformance: Castle Pain update 1.8 released on XBox. This is the update which adds peer to peer scoreboards. Now we shall see who’s got the best scores. Bring it! See you on the online scoreboards! 😉 (in case you have trouble updating: to manually update the game: delete from your xbox, and download it again […]

Online scoreboards for Castle Pain soon

May 11, 2011

We just put the game in Peer Review for an update. This update, 1.8, will bring the peer to peer scoreboards. Finally you will be able to compare with the best in the world! 🙂

Game Interface review, online scoreboards, Platformance 2

April 29, 2011

Here is a bunch of news: GameInterface review: Mr Deeke over at Game Interface reviewed Platformance: Castle Pain and liked it: Overall, Platformance: Castle Pain is an enjoyable and entertaining Xbox Indie title that makes use of platformer aspects as well as medieval design to deliver an original gaming experience. Whether you’re a hardcore platformer […]

Platformance: Castle Pain Update 1.7 now live on Xbox

April 25, 2011

  The update has succesfully passed peer review and is now available on the Xbox Live. This update adds: LOCAL SCOREBOARD (Finally you will be able  to save your ‘platformances’ and show your friends how hardcore you are.) New menu Icons with sounds In game Springs have been eased Minor bug fixes and improvements A […]

Platformance: Castle Pain Xbox getting an update soon

April 20, 2011

The XBLIG version of Platformance: Castle Pain is getting an update soon. We have uploaded this updated version and are waiting for review by fellow XNA creators (other game developers). So it should come out in a few days (it all depends on how fast we go through peer review). This update (1.7)  features: A […]

Fantastic Platformance Knight Patchwork Quilt !

March 26, 2011

Check out this awesome Platformance knight patchwork quilt made by a mother for her son ! Hand made, it’s about a bit more than a  foot tall and wide. The colors are perfect too. This craft must have taken some time to be done. click for fullsize

Xbox dashboard: Kotaku’s Favorites

March 23, 2011

There is a new Tab in the Indie Games section of the Xbox 360 Dashboard called “Kotaku’s Favorites”. Kotaku will regularly update this list with games they like. Here is the list of the first 8 favorites from Kotaku: Aban Hawkins & the 1000 SPIKES Cthulhu Saves the World Platformance: Castle Pain radiangames Ballistic Rotor […]

Download Platformance: Castle Pain music

March 21, 2011

Someone asked for it so here it is. Get the mp3s from Castle Pain music here: MagikoMusic  

Pocket Gamers reviews Platformance: Castle Pain on WP7

February 14, 2011

Keith, over at PocketGamer made a deep and detailed review of Platformance on WP7, giving it a note of 7/10. Love the introduction: Time was, a title in Platformance: Castle Pain’s mould would have been plastered all over the front of the magazines straddling the shelves at your local newsagents. In amongst the half penny […]

Hidden Audio Log’s 2010 Xbox Live Indie Game Awards

December 21, 2010

“Hidden Audio Log’s 2010 Xbox Live Indie Game Awards Genre Awards – Best Platformer And The Nominees Are – Inertia! Platformance: Castle Pain Ophidian Wars: Opac’s Journey And the winner is… Platformance: Castle Pain !” Thanks Hidden Audio Log for this award !!! Go to the website and check all the nominees. They are all […]

WP7 Platformance: Castle Pain update v1.6 available

December 19, 2010

This update adds some local score boards and menu icons. See here for more infos :v1.6 update

Platformance: Castle Pain WP7 gets a score boards update soon

December 13, 2010

Something that was missing from Platformance was the ability to save your “platformances”. We just added  3 local top 20 score boards on the windows phone 7 version, one for each type of difficulty. They display your progression (“Princess” being the ultimate), the number of deaths, the time spent on your quest and the date […]

Windows Phone 7 Launch Line Up from DarkZero Videogame Magazine

November 24, 2010

The good people over at darkzero.co.uk have an article on games already available on Windows Phone 7. In their “The Good” section they list: – Xbox LIVE The Harvest – Xbox Live Hexic Rush – Xbox Live OMG – Xbox Live Max and the Magic Marker – and … Indie game: Platformance: Castle Pain ! […]

EDGE magazine’s Top 20 Indie Games

November 17, 2010

Wow… we made it in EDGE magazine Top 20 Indie Games! Thanks EDGE! Go check out the whole list of these great Indie Games: EDGE Top 20

Platformance: Castle Pain now available on WP7

November 17, 2010

We’re glad that fixes have been done so Platformance is back on the WP7 Marketplace (Games/Action_Adventure). Current version is 1.5 and it fixes previous problems with slow menus in trial mode. It runs really great now !  

We’re experiencing problems with the WP7 marketplace right now

November 6, 2010

Platformance: Castle Pain has been released on November the 3rd on the phone  Marketplace, but the usual buttons to Try or Buy the game are missing from the phone interface, so you wont be able to download it from the marketplace. Something went wrong when they deployed our game we guess. We have contacted Microsoft […]

You can now officialy play Platformance: Castle Pain on your Windows Phone 7

November 4, 2010

Freshly available on the phone Marketplace . The gameplay is exactly the same. We ‘ve added a virtual stick under you thumb and it’s working like a charm. Now you can enjoy a brutal session of Platformance on your toilets! 😉